2minutes2virtue

"What do you want me to do for you?" This is the question Jesus asks Bartimaeus and all of us this week. Do we try to convince the Lord that He should bless us? No! This week, go to prayer with perfect confidence and trust that when we ask Him for something that is for our good, He will happily grant it to us and pour His blessings upon us. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

The Gospel is a team sport! What team are you playing on and who's on your team? It's important that we surround ourselves with God-given friends, "teammates", that, with us, are bold and ambitious, not for power, but service. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Behold and be held in Jesus' gaze of love this week. When you go to the Blessed Sacrament this week, striving to look at Jesus and be looked at by Him, recognize and identify those distractions, those pieces of wealth, that keep you from keeping you from looking at Jesus like it did for the rich young man in the Gospel and that keep you away from the loving gaze of the Father. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

If you're married, think this week how you can be more readily, more generously, more patiently receive the faults and failings of your spouse, so that you can more deeply love your spouse like Christ loves the Church. If not married, you can still apply this to your other relationships, making sure that through the faults and failings of your neighbor, you still love them as Love Himself loves. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

What are those things, those mortal or venial sins, that prevent us from relationship with Jesus? Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Seek those opportunities in our life where we can be "in the midst of them" in intentional service. How can we be generous to those around us at home, school or work with our possessions, money and even our time? Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

This week, when you encounter your daily challenges and struggles, ask yourself, "Am I seeing this through my eyes, or from the eyes of my Lord Jesus?" Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

This week, ask the Lord for the courage to speak his words in this broken world and do his will and the grace to listen to Him as he instructs us. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Reflect on how you are called to live God's commandments in your life. Are you merely completing them on the surface, or do you live them out from the heart? Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Jesus alone has the words of everlasting life. Can you pray for the grace to lean in and trust him? Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

When we receive our Lord at Sunday Mass, we are able to receive and see him throughout the week and be sustained by that food of eternal life. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Draw near to our Lord in the blessed sacrament, his body and blood truly present in what looks likes a piece of bread. Go online and see when your parish has adoration or look for your closest adoration chapel and spend time with He who loves us best. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Identify some good thing that you can offer up in sacrifice for a week, like a mini lent. When you crave it, set your eyes towards Heaven, where the Father will give you good things beyond what you could ever imagine. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Ask the Lord to reveal to you where you're maybe not trusting enough in His Providence to give us the strength to reach out to those we have become estranged with so as to extend that "olive branch" of forgiveness, peace and friendship. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Our priests really need our prayers! Always! This week, pick a priest that you know and love and pray for him every day that he may grow in holiness and better serve the flock as a good shepherd. Also take some time to pray for our Bishop, our Chief Shepherd, and his priests that help him, and an increase in vocations for our beloved Diocese of Arlington. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Take stock this week and ask the Holy Spirit what is holding me back from being an effective missionary disciple and to show you what baggage you might be carrying with you that you do not need to. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Spend a few moments this week inviting the Holy Spirit into our lives and to bear the wrongs done to us patiently and unite them to the Cross of our Lord Jesus. Only He can give us the patience to walk on this road of missionary discipleship while bearing our crosses. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

All our sufferings, and those of the ones we love, are in the hands of the Father. Give our Lord the permission this week to bring good out of the evil that surrounds us. Only God can bring good out of even the worst evil.....and He does. //  Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

This week, let go of the illusion of control. There's always something, an anxiety or a fear that we think we're in control of. Surrender that to the Lord Jesus this week, and let Him take care of it. //  Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Go find your Catechism and look up why the Church teaches what she teaches, allow yourself to be challenged by the teachings of our Lord Jesus. Trust in the Truth that Mother Church has passed down to us. // Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

In your prayer this week, pray for all those who struggle with sins, addictions and vices, but most especially for those who struggle with the same sins you do. //  Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

We are challenged this week to think, "How much is my life about me?" We should ask this because, once we think about it and start to change the way we live to focus more on those around us, we will find that there really is no greater happiness than when we live our life truly about and for others. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

This week, you are invited to pray for unity, forgiveness, and truth in places in your life where there may be disunity, especially within families and married couples. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Consider your prayer life. Is my prayer, my piety, a time to truly get in touch with the Lord and to listen to Him? Or am I just telling him my own problems or how good I am? Look into how you pray, and maybe slow down as you pray your rosary or be silent with Him. Our acts of piety should always keep our eyes fixed on our ascended Christ in heaven. //  Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

This week, pray two things: "Lord, abide with me and help me to abide with You." Ask our Lord to point out those things, that need to be "pruned" from our lives so as to abide more deeply in Him. //  Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

This week, pray three Our Fathers each day for our Shepherds: one for our Holy Father, one for our Bishop and one for our priests. Pray ardently every day for our Bishop and priests, that they may lead us one day to verdant pastures like Christ, the Good Shepherd. // Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

In this third week of Easter, Fr. Scalia challenges us to make a special effort to go out and tell someone about Christ risen from the dead. // Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Read 2 Corinthians 12, St. Paul's account of his wounds and how he brought them to the Lord. Bring your wounds Jesus in your prayer this week and allow Him to redeem them. Watch this week's #2minutes2virtue challenge from Fr. Scalia. //  Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

This week in prayer, picture yourself in heaven, leaving behind this valley of tears and rejoicing in being in the presence of God. //  Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

Singing allows our entire being to praise God. This Holy Week, grow in charity by participating intentionally in the singing of the music sung at the different liturgies of this week and the Triduum. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

In these final weeks of Lent, pray for an increase of Faith, that we may grow more and more in our belief that Jesus Christ truly is the Savior of the World. // Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

A challenge for you ​this week: seek to grow in the virtue of fortitude. Ask God the Father to give you the strength and grace to turn one specific work of darkness into a work of light. Watch to receive this week's #2minutes2virtue challenge from Fr. Vincent Ferrer Bagan. // Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week.

The virtue of religion is giving to God what he is owed, including obeying the commandments he gives us in this week's First Reading. This week, identify which of the Ten Commandments you still do not love, and ask the Father for the grace to begin to love it, in order to obey his commands, and, through that, fall deeper in love with Him. // Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week. And join our 2m2v Facebook Group to continue the conversation! 

Visit our Lord this week in the Blessed Sacrament, where he presents himself to us in what seems like the ordinary species of bread, and let yourself be transfigured by him.  Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week. And join our 2m2v Facebook Group to continue the conversation! 

Having a clear conscience is something so vital for us in our spiritual life and the exercises of prayer, fasting and almsgiving help us achieve it. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week. And join our 2m2v Facebook Group to continue the conversation! 

This week, pray for the virtue of zeal. Pray to be zealous in sharing the Gospel with someone, even those with whom we might feel uncomfortable.  Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week. And join our 2m2v Facebook Group to continue the conversation!   

Let's ask the Lord this week to give us to grace to listen attentively to Him, and as Samuel did. Tune into the #2minutes2virtue challenge for the 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time from Fr. Christopher Tipton.  Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week. And join our 2m2v Facebook Group to continue the conversation! 

As Christians, we are called to walk humbly with the joy of Christ. How can you be a prophet of repentance among your peers? Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week. And join our 2m2v Facebook Group to continue the conversation!     

Jesus Christ offers us His body every Sunday as a sacrifice for our redemption. This week, reflect on how we glorify God in our bodies and recognize Him as our King by being present to Him. Sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone! Subscribe here to receive these 2-minute video reflection straight to your inbox every week. And join our 2m2v Facebook Group to continue the conversation! 

It is good to celebrate Christ, it is good to celebrate that Light that led the Magis to the Holy Family! Manifest Christ to the world by our hands, our words and our charity.  Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!

This week, ask yourself and within your family and community, "How can we be more present to each other?" Happy feast and remember to rejoice in that we are part of the family of the Church! Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!

This Christmas week, let's strive to imitate the trust Our Lady had at the Annunciation and ask for that trust by praying "Jesus, I trust in You!" Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!

This week, make sure you have a nativity scene in your home, and spend some time praying before it. Seek to renew a sense of awe and wonder at the upcoming arrival of the King of Kings! Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!

During this first week of Advent, resolve to simply open to the radical and life-altering grace of God. Consider reach out to those going through hardship or your family members to be a helping hand. Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!

Jesus, Our Noble King! |  Take this reflection into your prayer this week: "What parts of myself need to be submitted to the Lordship of Jesus Christ? Do my actions bear the image and mark of Christ the King? Where do I need Him to come in to rule?" Happy Solemnity! Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!

What Do I Do With What I'm Given? |  We all have those daily things we don't like doing. Take that thing and offer it up for someone, turning that thing into an act of love. Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!

Have Your Heart Ready for the Bridegroom |  This week, when we do our evening examination of conscience each night, let's ask "where have I acted out of faith and hope and how have my sins been driven by discouragement and despair?" Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!

Do As They Say, Not As They Do This week, think of one thing you can do solely for the Lord. It won't be seen by anyone else, and it won't be done for you, but simply for the glory of God. Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!

The Root of All Friendship This week, take some time to let God tell you how much he cares for you and loves you. If we're struggling in our relationship with the Father, maybe the place to start is to take a look at our own heart and see how beloved we are by Him. Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!

Christ Knows. The devil knows your name, but calls you by your sins. The Father knows your sins, but calls you by name. This week take time to reflect and pray on how the Father, the Father of love, mercy and truth, calls you by your name. Take the Gospel into the week with you! Join our new 2m2v Facebook Group. Or sign up by texting "2m2v" to 84576 to receive the weekly challenge straight to your  phone!